Artistic director and conductor of the Orchestre classique de Montreal. He conducted the New York Philharmonic, the Royal Ballet Covent Garden, the Northern Sinfonia, and the BBC Welsh Symphony, among others.
In May, 2006 he was voted one of the top five Greatest Hamiltonians of all time by Hamilton Spectator readers.
He studied with Igor Markevitch and won first prize at the 1958 Pan-American conducting competition.
Brott was named one of Canada's Outstanding Young Men in 1969 and 1973 by the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Boris Jeremiah Brott was born in Montreal in 1944 to violinist and composer Alexander Brott and cellist Lotte Brott.